Chapter 6

Samuel de Champlain

"The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.

William Pitt

He is called Chatham or William Pitt the Elder to distinguish from his son, who also was a prime minister, William Pitt the Younger. He was a British Whig statesman who led the government of Great Britain during the Seven Years' War (known as the French and Indian War in North America).

French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)

The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.

Battle of Quebec

Was fought on December 31, 1775, between American Continental Army forces and the British defenders of Quebec City early in the American Revolutionary War.

Albany Congress

also known as, "The Conference of Albany" was a meeting of representatives sent by the legislatures of the northern seven of the thirteen British North American colonies (specifically, Connecticut , Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode island)

Acadians

are the descendants of the 17th-century French colonist who settled in Acadia, many of whom are metis.

Queen Anne's War

as the North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession was known in the British colonies, was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought between France and England, later Great Britain, in North America for control of the continent.

King George's War

is the name given to the military operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748).

Regulars

is the official army of a state or country (the official armed forces)

Edict of Nntes

issued on 13 April 1598, by Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France(also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially catholic.

Proclamation of 1763

prohibited settlement beyond the Appalachian mountains.

James Wolfe

was a British Army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French at the Battle of Quebec in Canada in 1759.

Edward Braddock

was a British soldier and commander-in-chief for the 13 colonies during the actions at the start of the French and Indian War (1754-1765) which is also known in Europe as the Seven Years' War(1756-1763).

War of Jenkins's Ear

was a conflict between Great Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742.

Louis XIV

was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death.

Pontiac's Uprising

was a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose Confederation of elements of Native American Tribes primarily from the Great lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War (1754-1763).

Pontiac

was an American automobile brand established in 1926 as a companion make for General Motors' Oakland.

Coureurs de Bois

was an independent entrepreneurial French-Canadian woodsman who traveled in New France and the interior of North America.

King William's War

was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688-97, also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg).

Huguenots

were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Voyageurs

were people who engaged in the transporting of furs by canoe during the fur trade era.